Network speed

[redbullmaster]

Hi i have belkin F5D7231 high speed Wireless G Router and are using belkin F5D7000 802.11g Wireless Desktop Network Cards to connect to two pc's. We on Virgin Media 20mb but aren't getting full speed (about half) is there a faster network card or would power line be the way to go, any help would be great
Thanks

[Anonymous]

Thats the line speed, you get upto 20mbits per second, but will never reach that unless your next to the exchange. I got about 5mbits a second and am on 20mbits, goes upto 9 in the dead of night, its due to others usage, not your own system, which if wireless G will be 54meg or more.

[redbullmaster]

hi thanks for your reply but with the modem going to the pc we getting up to 18MB. With it running though the wireless network
we getting 11mb So something bottlenecking the speed. I think its the network card but im not sure. I would like know what could be blocking it and how to get the speed up to its proper level from the router to the card thanks.

[Anonymous]

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[Mattbot2]

[quote:1234844af2=\"PrivatePyle@Work\"]How do you know you are getting 18meg out of curiosity? Blaine is quite right, read the small print for absolutely any ISP and you will see that nobody says you will actually get the service that is advertised. At 3am on Xmas Eve I bet you get 20meg on your line, if you sit on top of the exchange box with your laptop hardwired into it, but thats about the only time [/quote:1234844af2]


lol.

back on topic

i think what he might be on about is the actual data transfer rate? not his line rate?

[Anonymous]

I would say thats true, if you dont read, its Megabits a second not megabites. You divide by 8 roughtly to get it in megabytes i believe.

[mac124]

whats the signal strength / quality like. I don't know a great deal about wifi, other than it doesn't seem to work in my house very well :roll: , but i do recall it drops the speed if the signal strength / quality isn't very good.

[redbullmaster]

Hi i Know what im getting because when i do lots of downloads on the modem im getting total download speeds of 18mbps and i only hit 11mbps on the network setup. I with virgin media who them there self's say you should be within 10% of advertised speed which i am, i just want to get the same result on my network setup. The signal strength is fine mac124 all im really asking for is what other people use here or can recommend me some kit if they see a weak link in my set up that i need to change to get top speeds with out having to have cable ruining up the stairs.

[Anonymous]

I wouldve said that maybe using a linksys and a speed booster unit to extend the range might work. Wires may seem hard work, but you get get gigabit ethernet now, and that will not bottleneck you at all.

[mac124]

Well i have done some home work and your network cards should be capable of 54meg as in mega BITS per sec so assuming your connection is 20 megabits per second (or 18 ) and your signal is good then i don't see what the problem is unless for some reason the router or network cards are running the wifi on the older standard 802.11b which is 11meg. Which it sounds like it might be from what you have said.

taken from http://www.networkworld.com/details/466.html

The IEEE's 802.11g standard is designed as a higher-bandwidth - 54M bit/sec - successor to the popular 802.11b, or Wi-Fi standard, which tops out at 11M bit/sec.

[redbullmaster]

Hi the pc down stairs is less than a foot from the router so the range is not the issue and the belkin utility is showing at the moment as 48.0mbps. Has any one used the Power Line Ethernet as that saves me having to drill in to the walls for ethernet cable. Thanks guys for the help

[Mattbot2]

well, when you go wireless, speeds of the internet itself do usually drop, its normally due to the router... \"Routing\" and they are way more complex than a standard USB modem. A router has much more kit inside.